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Nice images–I like your architectural bent. Especially like the aesthetics of the second one. You seem to be roaming for the out-of-the-way locations. Where do you live that you have so many abandoned, remote and rural sites in your work, Sally

Thanks Sally. And yes, I’m always on the look out for abandoned places as their lingering sense of history fascinates me. Lucky for me it’s not too hard to find them, living in a remote part of France and all.

Thanks Marina. Well, I’ve always wanted to be in the movie business, but no unfortunately not. Seeing that I’m a lousy writer I suppose I need to tell my stories in a different medium, hence the mini/fragmented/abstract tales I (try) tell here.

Sure home is where the heart is. And our hearts are wandering these roads, rest in abandoned places, breathes lonesomeness & start to run again as soon as the road sending another melancholic call. Our blood is like gasoline & we just had to make sure that where we lay our heads we build our home. There ain’t no escaping it’s just running, running & running again.

And between fading colours, cracked asphalt & left behind trailers we found beauty, depth & a hundred sad songs to get us through the nights. Damn fine traveling with you by my side, Jean-Pierre. Damn brilliant photographs masterly composed & arranged. Soulfood!

Always running, searching for that elusive place, that place that you might call ‘home’, even if it’s only for a day…Yes, we make good travelling companions, don’t we Fritsch? We both know about the sad songs, we know how much comfort they bring with their words of longing, and yes, we both know how they get us through the long night…

JP, good pictures! Wow, decay, everything falling apart, you really feel it here, even if it is “home”. I like the 3rd and 4th best. The 3rd one – the colour and shape of the doors – and especially the white hinges, and the bottom central pot plant – these all coalesce into a really good image – its almost beautiful, and yet its tattered! And the grassy crack through the white line – that’s a great abstract! Good photography, my friend! Adrian